"The poet, critic and translator Jeffrey Wainwright (b. 1944) calls this “tall talk” and “plain talk” and readily admits he is always impatient “to get on to the big number”. For elegists, caught between their intimacy with the dead and the utter unknowability of death, the division between the lyrical and the real runs particularly deep." Andrew McCulloch • TLS

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